Machine for making whips



(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1..

D. DOTY.

MAGHINE FOR MAKING WHIPS. No. 270,029. Patented Jan, 2, 1883.

1 1? a ii j.';:ti:3--

VYITNEVSHSES INVENTOR 7 g My? (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet :2.

D. DOTY. MACHINE FOR MAKING WHIPS.

Patented JamZ, 1883.

.WITNESS'ES ATTORN EYS (No Model.)

WITNESSES 3 Sheets-Sheet; 3.

D. DOTY.

MAGHINQ FOR MAKING WHIPS.

Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

Fly. 4% Fly.

INVENTOR 1 A onuevs N. PETERS. mun-mum Wnhin hn. n. a

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUANE DOTY, OF BERLIN, WVISCONSIN.

MACHINE FOR' MAKING WHIPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,029, dated January 2, 1883, i I Application filed September 30, 1882. (No model.) i

T 0 all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, DUANE DOTY, a citizen of the United States, and aresidentofBerlin, in the county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented a new and valuableImprovement in Machines for Making Whips; and I do hereby declare that the followingis afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention in a front view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view'ot' the bottom, Fig. 3 is a vertical section, taken through the center. Figs. land 5 are details showingthe springs. I

This invention relates to a machinefor making whip-stocks, in which the strips of leather for forming the stock are drawn in a bundle through a compressor and a cord wound spirally around the strips as they are drawn from the compressor in the form of a whip-stock.

standards B of a suitable frame.

My improvement relates to means for compressing the strips together with a pressure exerted uniformly from all sides of the bundle; also to means for winding a cord around the stock; also to certain details of construction hereinafter fully described.

A indicates a metal or other table, supported upon cross-bars which are attached to the This table is provided with an opening, A, for the upward passage of the stock, said opening beingopened or closed by the devices which constitute the compressor. This compressor consists of a set of segmental-shaped plates, 0, arranged in pairs, which are superposed one upon another, and adapted to slide, so that the straight edges of each pair can be brought together. These plates are all supported under the table by a spider or frame, D, attached to the table. The several pairs are relatively arranged so that when the plates are moved horizontally and outward,so as to separatetheir meeting edges, an opening shall be formed which is bounded on all sides by the respective straight inner edges of the plates. 'Each of said inner edges of, the plates has a recess, 0, and on the outer edge of each plate is an arm, 0. Cords E pass from these arms over pulleys F, and then extend down to a treadle, G. The said arms work through guides d and connect with springs h, which are in turn connected with the tables. These springs force the slideplates toward the center, so that when a bundle of leather strip-s is inserted between said slide or com pressing plates they will press from all sides upon the This cylinder passes through a cross-head, I, secured to two ofthe standards of the frame, and is provided at its upper end with a beveled ring-gear, K, which rests and turns upon the cross-head. The cylinder carries a laterallyprojecting rod, L, which constitutes a spindle for spool L, upon which the thread used in wrappingthewhipstockis wound. Aspring,l, arranged upon this rod, conspitutes a tension for the spool. The cylinder is rotated by a pinion, M, which meshes with the ring-gear upon the cylinder. This pinion is fixed upon one end of a rotary shaft, m, carrying at its remaining end a gear, N, which meshes with a larger gear, a, carrying a second gear, a, which is driven by a large main driving-gear, O. The shaft 0" of this main driving-gear extends across the machine, and upon it is wound a. cord,P, which extends upward and over a pulley, 11, mounted at the upper end of a standard, Q. This standard rises from the cross-head I, and is provided with a grooved way, q, in which is arranged a slide, q. A spring-bar, R, is attached to this slide, and to the spring-bar is pivoted a pair of grippers, S, to the handles of which the cord is arranged above the opening in the tables is passed up between these plates and the By now rotating the main driving-gear, either by hand or by suitable connection with an engine, the cord connecting with the gripperhandles will be drawn over the pulley and wound upon the shaft to which it is attached. This will close the gripper-handles, so as to cause theirjaws to firmly grasp the bundle of strips and at the same time raise the same, thereby drawing the bundle up from the compressor in a compacted .form. At the same time the cylinder will be caused to revolve, and hence, as the bundle or stock ascends, the cord will be wound spirally around it.

The driving mechanism can be arranged so as to be thrown out of gear, whereby the-cord can be unwound from the shaft so as to lower the grippers and the compressed stock.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a machine for making whip-stocks, the compressor-plates which are forced toward each other by springs, substantially as described.

2. The horizontally-sliding compressorplates 0, arranged in pairs and connected with springs which tend to force the plates together, said plates being disposed so as to exert a lateral pressure on the bundleof strips from all 4. The combination, with the compressorplates, of the rotary cylinder located above the same and carrying a spindle for the spool on which the cord for wrapping the bundle of strips is wound, substantially as specified.

5.-The combination, with the compressorplates, of the grippers supported by a slide which works in a guide upon a standard mounted above the compressor, the cord for raising said slide and grippers passing over a pulley on the standard and connected with a rotary shaft, on which it is wound, and the rotary drum carrying a spindle for the cord with which the bundle of strips is wound, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with the table provided with an opening through which the'com pressed bundle of strips passes, of the com pre'ssorplates 0, located under the table and working in suitable guides, the springs h, and the cords attached at their upper ends to the compressor-plates, and at their lower ends connected with a treadle, said cords being carried over pulleys, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DUANE DOTY.

Witnesses:

GEO. D. VVARING, OHAs. M. DoDsoN. 

